This. has. to. be. a. guy. inna. bear. suit…………………… KLUNK!!!!!
(Cheshire Kitteh Kat revives just briefly enuff to croak out this message;)
“This has to be a left-over costume from Halloweenses…..!
And I won’t accept any other explanation…..!!!!” :shock:

No, no, no! Not kung fu–think National Championship Baton Twirling! Remember baton twirling? Used to be de rigueur at all sports half-time shows. Does anybody other than this super-talented bear do it any more?

I love how totally casual the bear is about all of this. “Oh sure, I’m twirling a stick like a ninja, but what’s really important is that I suck on my toebeans–that requires my immediate attention…” This is astonishing.

Sorry to burst everyone’s bubble, but this one is very much a fake. Having worked with bears for several years in my youth, I can tell immediately that’s not a real bear.

The first and most obvious clue? There is no tongue. Watch the entire video, second by second – not once will you see a tongue come out of that mouth. If it were a real bear, you’d see a tongue at some point during the film, somewhere, most likely very often.

The less obvious clues, if you hadn’t spent several years cleaning cages, feeding, and talking to bears, would be in the general head and body movements, especially the feet.

Bears are pretty adept with their paws, considering that they don’t have front feet like monkeys or raccoons, and if you’re sitting on your butt in a zoo for years, without a good enrichment program, what else is there to do? Good for the bear figuring out some way to entertain her- or him-self.

Aww, it’s a cute bear. I suspect it’s real and it did play with the stick it’s just edited to make it look much more impresive then it would be with forward and backward looping. Clues are hard stops on panning then going the oppisite direction not a natural movement when people are holding a camera or as previously mentioned a dolphin in a bear suit.